The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
[Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms]

This sort of requires German. I will be happy to translate it for you pun for pun, however, if you catch me near a computer. And it might be funny in a different way if you don’t know what he’s saying.

 

Here, by contrast, he is with English subtitles, in a sketch that relies heavily on rhyme. Also the subtitles are faulty; “trunk” should be “mast” (like ship’s mast).